Windows 10: How to assign a PERMANET letter to my external HDD?

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help. USB drive isn't assigned a drive letter.

Any usb flash drive I plug into my computer isn't assigned a drive letter. The physical drive shows in the "safely remove hardware" but it doesnt show up in disk management. I have tried to populate the volume thru the safely remove hardware properties window and it does pop up in the list but it doesn't stay there. This isn't a format or assign a letter problem. It's more complicated then that. Maybe one of the services needed for usb drive management was disabled? Suggestions needed. btw external usb harddrives work fine.

 

W10 external disk visible in disk management, but no drive letter assigned

My laptop runs W10 as OS. External HDD is a Verbatim 47527.

The external HDD appears in Disk management, without a drive letter. When my laptop runned W7 , all worked well.

At disk manager, the partition is shown as primary. To assign a drive letter is not possible.

The only possible option is to convert the drive to a dynamic disk.

Will I loose the data if I execute that?

TIA, Ton.

 

how to stop windows from changing the letter of my USB external HDD

Hi Bvella,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

I understand the inconvenience you are facing currently.

I would appreciate if you can provide us the following information to help us understand the issue better.

• Since when are you facing this issue?
• Did you make any changes in prior to this issue?

I would like to inform you that the issue might have occurred due to some changes made to your computer.

I suggest you to try changing the drive letter of the drive and check if it helps.

Follow the steps to change the drive letter:

• Press Windows + X keys and click on Disk Management.
• Right click on the external drive and click on Change Drive letter and paths.
• Click on Change the button.
• Under Assign the following Drive letter, select the desired drive letter.
• Click Ok to save changes.

Hope the information helps. Please let us know if the issue persist and we will be happy to assist you further.